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Interactive Media, B.S.C.

Discover digital product design and interaction in this STEM-qualified program.

Top Game Design School

The Princeton Review has repeatedly named the University of Miami a top Game Design School.

Labs & Spaces

Tinker, create, and collaborate in cutting-edge labs and spaces across campus.

Major or Minor

Both a major and a minor are offered in Interactive Media.

Create, Innovate, and Design Immersive Experiences

The Interactive Media B.S.C. equips students to understand, modify, and create technology. This STEM-qualified major encourages designers, artists, programmers, and scientists to explore digital expression, emphasizing research, prototyping, and designing impactful experiences through innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches.

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Intro to Creative Coding

This course will introduce students to the building blocks of creative coding and will enable them to learn to create and communicate dynamic content and interfaces that can be deployed across platforms. Students will learn programming fundamentals that can be translated into virtually all programming settings.

Web Lab

This course is a practical introduction to web design and marketing. Students will learn how to produce and market dynamic websites using modern content management systems.

360 Immersive Storytelling

This course introduces the student to immersive storytelling techniques. This hands on course is designed for students who want to develop the necessary skills to make immersive projects, this course sets out the tools used tell visually effective and interactive stories.

Physical Computing

This seminar will examine the differences and opportunities present, between a series of physical computing techniques and rapid prototyping.

Introduction to Game Design

This is an introductory course about game design, theory, and development, and how games align themselves as a lens of study for all interactive media.

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Related Minors

Interactive Media
Game Design
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Contact

Dr. Michelle Seelig

Interim Department Chair
mseelig@miami.edu | (305) 284-5211

Research, analyze, prototype, and design.

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Emerging Media Lab

The Emerging Media Lab is designed to immerse students in the latest digital technologies and rapid prototyping equipment. The lab promotes making throughout the ideation, prototyping, and development phases, inspiring students to create rapid prototypes of games, AR, VR, and interactive installations.

Virtual Experience Simulation Lab

VESL is central to UMVerse initiatives, offering students interdisciplinary, hands-on learning opportunities and supplying researchers with software development resources. The innovation and experiential lab for immersive media projects supports student innovation and engagement in real-world projects while fostering an inclusive, interdisciplinary community.

New Experience Research & Design Lab

The NERDLab is an award-winning student-faculty cooperative driven by research, development, and an enthusiasm for social impact. It is an incubator for initiatives that collaborate locally, nationally, and globally, as well as integrates classic and novel techniques to produce projects that inspire and educate.

User Experience Lab

The main function of the UX Lab is to inform web, mobile, gaming, and software interface design based on human attitudes, emotions, and performance data. A variety of research methods collect and analyze findings, including focus groups, ethnography, expert reviews, usability testing, eye-tracking, and more.

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Class seams fashion and technology

In the Wearable Technologies course, students design and develop concepts into functional wearables and learn to integrate electronics and fiber art techniques using sensors, microcontrollers, and basic programming.

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